Chapter 277: Day 13 of Survival at Sea (10) Server Merge Competition...

[System Notice: The server-merge competition event is open for a limited time. Fight for honor!]

[Event Details: On the current server, this event will automatically start after the first player obtains the final treasure chest in any expedition site in the Survival at Sea world. The system will select another server with a higher expedition progress to join this competition. At the end of the competition, the party with more points will be determined as the winner.

Event duration: After the competition automatically starts, players have 30 minutes to prepare. The event lasts for 120 hours, and there will be a countdown reminder on the system time.

Event Phase: During the competition, only players' exploration strategy progress will be counted towards competition points. Each player's strategy progress after entering the exploration area will be accumulated in the current server's point statistics. The points results will be announced only at the end of the event.

Event Rewards: After the server merge is successful, players on the winning server will receive an amount equal to the treasure chests opened during the competition.

Activity Penalty: Players on the losing server will lose half of their treasure chests during the competition after the server merge. If the system inventory does not have enough supplies to deduct, the current player's five-dimensional personal stats will be deducted. If the server merge fails, the losing server will directly enter Nightmare Mode, in which the player survival rate is approximately 10%.

This was the longest system tone Yu Miaomiao had ever heard since coming to the apocalypse. It was also the most ruthless and cold text she had heard in such a long time.

The server merger was indeed coming just as Yu Miaomiao and others had guessed, but it was coming in this inhumane competition method.

The penalties for losing are too numerous. Even if they gain supplies, they have to give them back. If they don't have enough, they have to deduct five attributes. Personal stats only have four, and the fifth is just age. What does deducting age mean? Does it mean reducing age? Definitely not. It means reducing lifespan. What happens if a person's age is deducted to 0? Death, I guess.

We are playing word games here, and any survivor who has survived to this day will understand what I mean.

Nightmare mode, the system didn’t say what it was like, but it directly gave the conclusion that only a few people in the entire server could survive.

The server where Yu Miaomiao is located has a relatively high survival rate among all servers, with more than 70,000 people left. However, if the internal test server enters this nightmare mode as a loser, according to the system, there may only be 7,000 people left at most, and it is hard to say whether he can survive.

Before entering any mode, the system will not clearly state the survival rate, and the survivors are allowed to survive freely. This also indirectly shows that the system does not support non-server integration. Presumably, with such an obvious prompt, no one should think about non-server integration.

So the question is, Yu Miaomiao can be sure that the internal test server is definitely one of the servers participating in this event, so which server is the other party?

Moreover, in Miaomiao's eyes, this was clearly the system's cover for merging servers, and pulling the two services into a competition was just a gimmick. The fundamental purpose was to make it increasingly difficult for the survivors to survive, and even to create hatred between the people on the two servers before the merger.

Moreover, the system does not clearly state what constitutes success and failure in a server merger. Just like other functions of the earliest system, does it require survivors to figure it out on their own?

After reading the whole message, it seems that every survivor must join the adventure in the exploration area and don’t think about staying in the sea world.

In other words, the system wants to use this competition to reduce the population in the apocalypse.

The weather in the mode is becoming more and more complicated, but fortunately, in addition to surviving in groups, the survivors have accumulated a lot of supplies and their combat capabilities have also improved, so they still have enough strength to face the sea monsters, so the harmful system took action.

Yu Miaomiao's message alerts were already blowing up at this moment. She quickly turned off the sound and clicked the adventure card to return to the base.

“Meow meow meow—”

Yu Miaomiao, who was still dizzy, bumped into a sweet and soft cat.

"Xiaoguai!" Yu Miaomiao happily hugged Xiaoguai's body. Seeing that its body was fluffy and had a peach scent, she knew that it was Yingying who gave it a bath.

"Meow."

While Xiaoguai was acting coquettishly, Yu Miaomiao kept interacting with the big cat in front of her, and even stroked its smooth fur until it became frizzy.

The usually bustling common area of ​​the cabin was empty except for Yingying and Xiaoguai. However, there were two or three people outside the door. She stroked the cat and asked, "Shouldn't you guys be watching the video?"

Logically speaking, now should be the second wave of movie-watching leisure time.

"After receiving the notice of the server-merge competition, they just redistributed the rotation time again, quickly compressed the entertainment and rest time, and all ran to the expedition area." Yingying was still a little nervous when she said this. Lulu said that she didn't drag her along for Xiaoguai's sake, and when Sister Miaomiao came back, she would go alone.

Yu Miaomiao was surprised and asked, "Did you arrange it so quickly?"

From the time she heard the news to the time she came back, it took no more than ten minutes. She didn't know whether her companions who were rushing over to the base were ready.

Yingying looked at Xiaoguai's coquettish appearance with envy. The arrogant zebra cat just now turned directly into a big soft cat. "That's what I said, but Iris said that if we don't hurry up, the exploration area will probably be full by the time we want to go."

That's true, but not many people dared to go there before. Can the adventure area be filled up in such a short time?

Before Yu Miaomiao had time to open the message reminder, she knew that many decisions on the base's affairs could be made through unified consultation without her presence, so she planned to take a look at everyone's previous discussions.

After stroking Xiaoguai for a while and calming its sensitive emotions caused by separation, Yu Miaomiao's stomach was already rumbling with hunger.

Yu Miaomiao rubbed Xiaoguai's face with the pads of her fingers: "Xiaoguai, be good, let me eat something."

"Meow."

Although Xiaoguai's tone was somewhat reluctant, he still obediently walked slowly back to his own exclusive position, which was on the second-floor attic in the corner of the public cabin. From here, he could see everyone's movements and feel safe at a high altitude.

Yu Miaomiao took out the poached chicken she had just gotten. There were chopped chicken pieces on a small plate, another small plate contained a saucer of oil with the aroma of sand ginger, a small box of vegetables, and a bowl of hot rice sprinkled with black sesame seeds.

I was sitting at the dining table and was about to open the holographic screen to check the messages when I heard a sound outside the door.

"My God Meow, could you please update the guide when you are free?" Two timid boys lay by the window, hesitated for a long time, and pushed each other before one of them spoke.

They were the companions who were mainly responsible for fishing and taking turns at the base. There was still some blood on their bodies, as if the battle had just ended.

Yu Miaomiao had just taken a bite of the chicken when the sauce in her mouth was halfway blooming in the air. She hurriedly replied, "Okay."

Even these two survivors who usually hate fighting monsters the most took the initiative to ask about the strategy. It seems that this server-merge competition has aroused everyone's competitive spirit, so the previous system lags may be due to this competition.

Yu Miaomiao even felt that triggering this competition was inevitable, it just happened that she got the final treasure chest. If it was any other event at that time, the server merger competition would also have happened. She hadn't eaten delicious food for a long time, so she decided to fill her stomach first.

Yu Miaomiao picked up a piece of chicken leg with skin and sucked the frozen juice on the skin. It was very cool and smooth, and the faint aroma of chicken filled her nose.

When you take the whole piece in your mouth, warm juice will immediately burst out when your teeth bite into the tender chicken meat, and the sweetness will burst out between the bones.

After a hard battle, she was almost crying when she saw such delicious food. She was about to turn into a pot cake if she kept eating the disgusting pot cakes and salads every day.

With the addition of sauce, the fragrance of chicken fat, the tenderness of meat, and the multiple tastes of dipping sauce, all exploded in her mouth layer by layer. Paired with white rice, she finished all the chicken and rice in one go.

After finishing the last mouthful of delicious chicken soup, before she could savor it, the entire plate suddenly disappeared, and Yu Miaomiao felt a little lost.

Yingying watched from the side for a long time, swallowing her saliva several times. Finally, she couldn't bear it anymore and hurried away after explaining the situation of the base.

It smells so good. After coming to the end of the world, everyone misses modern food.

If I hadn't eaten, I could only think about it. Now I'm watching others eat, and everyone would be greedy.

Yu Miaomiao wiped her mouth and consoled herself, saying that it was not that she did not want to share, but if she did not finish a dish by herself, she would not add any energy points. What’s more, the dish was so delicious that she really could not stop eating it.

After eating, start by reading messages from friends.

"Hua Bie: I've found out a few things about that person named Tingting. She's definitely been looking for someone, but I haven't heard of her having any grudges or doing anything bad. It's just that she often disappears after getting some special supplies."

Just half an hour after this message, Hua Bie sent a new message.

"Hua Bie: The person Tingting is looking for is most likely 'that good guy.' At my place, I ran into a former employee of 'that good guy's' former company. I saved his life, but he said he couldn't tell me more. As for the reason, I guess it's the same as the note you had someone pass on to me."

They define 'the good guy' as the person who helps the survivors and gives them hidden abilities, that is, Wei. As for 'the bad guy', he is the mastermind behind the scenes who has received some warnings, but he has not been found yet.

Tingting told her that the artificial intelligence group would analyze the words and actions of all survivors and add an elimination mechanism for people or things that might pose a threat to the doomsday system. This was why Yu Miaomiao always encountered temporary increases in the difficulty of survival or difficulties coming early.

When Tingting heard Yu Miaomiao's description, she was very surprised, because even Tingting herself had only encountered someone with cheats like him once, so how could she have met Yu Miaomiao so many times.

At that time, Yu Miaomiao's vague answer was that because she could always get more supplies, she might have been noticed by the system algorithm.

After Hua Bie sent these two messages, there was no other news. Yu Miaomiao took a quick look and found that he had indeed appeared in the expedition site.

Nana only sent one message.

"Yiren Tiafantian: Baby, you may be very busy right now. I have collected information for you. The server that will be merging with yours is District 9. Don't be afraid, I will always stand by your side."

District 9? ?

Why did it have to be District 9?

Isn’t District 9 the place where that scumbag conducted human experiments? Does the system want her to know the truth?

impossible.

Or maybe they want to send the people in the beta test server to the person who is doing the human experiment? This is possible.

But Yu Miaomiao guessed that according to the system's bad settings, it was clearly trying to intensify the conflict and see how the best-developed server would fight against the dominant server.

I don’t know if Hua Biekan saw it or not. After Yu Miaomiao sent a reassuring message to Nana, she sent a confirmation message to Hua Bie.

Until she finished reading all the group chat discussions, she did not receive a reply from Hua Bie. Yu Miaomiao thought that nothing might have happened. She took another look and saw that the other party's adventure progress was still changing. Maybe he was busy killing monsters and had no time.

If we have to talk about the benefits of the server merger, it is that Huabie can come back without using a cross-server invitation card.

There are three group chats in the base, one for core members, one for the base group, and one for scheduling.

The core members' group discussed the result, which is what Yingying mentioned, to shorten the entertainment and rest time and go to the adventure destination as soon as possible.

The shift group was also reduced from 10 people at the beginning to 5 people per shift. The rest time of the remaining people remained unchanged, but all the free people went to the adventure site.

No one was dissatisfied with the result. Some were even willing to sleep two hours less just to go faster, but they were all persuaded by April's Lie. After all, one of their companions died silently in the mouth of a seabird two days ago due to fatigue from fighting.

Now only Chenchen was left here to rest. Chenchen had just returned from the expedition and missed the start time of the competition. He rolled up the quilt, said good night to Yu Miaomiao, and fell asleep.

Yu Miaomiao glanced at the unused player on the table and took Xiaoguai to her room.

On the way back, Xiaoguai participated in killing the sea lions while Yu Miaomiao was thinking about things. From the battles of several people in the base, she could clearly see that the current scheduling allocation was a bit too extreme, and she always felt something was wrong.

Not to mention rushing to the expedition site, whether the base and the expedition site are safe, even the original plan of watching videotapes every day was directly shelved. A strange thought came to her mind, could it be that the system does not want to give these survivors leisure time?

Or, you don't want the survivors to find the secret hidden in the videotape?

Without exception, everyone in the world chat on this server revealed a sense of urgency about this server merger competition. From their words, one can vaguely see that a small number of survivors on this server are complaining about the automatic opening of this event.

What they meant was that if Meow Meow hadn't been so desperate to get the final BOSS treasure chest, he wouldn't have put everyone in a passive position.

But soon a lot of people came out to speak up for him. After all, in the apocalypse, no one knows what behavior will trigger strange activities, so if you want to blame someone, blame the system.

After much discussion, I asked those who questioned me from the beginning: if it were them, would they not open the final treasure chest when they saw it right in front of them?

I started to suspect that those who maliciously speculated that Meow Meow was not short of water were enemy spies from foreign servers, deliberately discrediting Meow God, making Meow God angry and stop updating the strategy post.

After this trend emerged, Yu Miaomiao once again received a large number of private messages, all begging her not to believe in slander and not to pay attention to the provocations of outsiders.

She had already seen the post from District 9 condemning the cross-server exchange, but she didn't intend to pay any attention to it. Every word in the post said that Meow Meow didn't need water and just wanted them to lose their lives. Besides cursing, it also asked her to stop leading the people in the internal test server.

Yu Miaomiao found this post funny. What's the point of knowing when to stop? She had clearly put herself on the losing side of the competition and didn't even think about trying hard. What qualifications did she have to criticize her?

Although a small number of people in the beta test server would make negative remarks, the atmosphere of the entire server was positive. From what she had just seen, as soon as the event notification came in, there were already many people in the expedition area.

Yu Miaomiao was very tired now, but she still forced herself to list out the general information about passing Fishman Island. As for the door and Xiaoguai, she did not explain them, but only said that the final BOSS mechanism was the same as the exploration area during the desert survival.

After Tingting left the expedition site, her location kept changing and no new information was sent, so Yu Miaomiao had no choice but to wait patiently.

After a brief exchange with other companions, I soon received news that Hua Bie was safe. The best thing is that all the friends are well.

Yu Miaomiao had just thought about the details of Fishman Island for a few minutes, and before the countdown next to the time started, he could no longer hold on and fell asleep.

She hasn't practiced yet today...

The next day, Yu Miaomiao suddenly woke up in a sweat with this guilty thought.

It was hot, as stuffy as being in a sauna, and I could hear Xiaoguai's uncomfortable low breathing next to my ears.

For some reason, the central air conditioning in the room stopped again, and the quilt was all wet. When Yu Miaomiao opened her eyes, she saw Xiaoguai sticking out his tongue.

She hurriedly took out the ice water from her backpack to quench Xiaoguai's thirst, but she found that there was no response after taking it for a long time. Could it be that the system was still delayed?

Yu Miaomiao opened the chat interface to see what other companions were saying, but what caught her eye were more than ten unread messages from Yingying.

what happens.

Yu Miaomiao walked to the insulated box in the house to get some ice water, and looked at the message while feeding Xiaoguai water with one hand.

"Yingyingguai: Sister Miaomiao, when will the new guide be updated? I don't dare to move forward without your detailed guide, let alone ask you in the group, for fear of being scolded by Lulu, hehe."

"Yingyingguai: Sister Miaomiao, you said the final boss has the same mechanics as the desert world's exploration zone. Could it be that you encountered a clone of Xiaoguai?"

"Yingyingguai: Ah... Sister Meow Meow, I suddenly thought of a bad possibility."

"Yingyingguai: Wuuwuwu, please don't, Sister Miaomiao, please don't tell me how you're going to deal with Xiaoguai. If you do, Xiaoguai will be finished."

"Yingyingguai: Someone really encountered a Xiaoguai clone. Why did these people have to come and spy on us? Wuwuwu, if they weren't monitoring us and hadn't seen Xiaoguai, they wouldn't have encountered him at all. They are courting death. Why do they do this?"

The next few messages were all Yingying's mumbling to herself, but Yu Miaomiao could understand from her words that someone had already followed the method she said, walked to the last BOSS, and even met a copy of Xiaoguai.

How to kill Xiaoguai?

If she wasn't there, no one would be able to kill the Xiaoguai clone, because it needs a human that the original Xiaoguai trusts to feed it, and it will only eat food with a knockout effect.

In fact, she didn't need to list that the final BOSS would be a copy of the strongest monster the current survivors had ever seen. Other survivors could guess it. After all, in the desert survival world, people from other servers had already figured out this pattern. Once someone saw that it was a copy of Xiaoguai, they would quickly understand.

Yu Miaomiao threw out this conclusion directly, just to see how many people would ask how to kill Xiaoguai's clone. She could find out from these people those who were hiding near her with ulterior motives. How could she possibly tell the real method to kill Xiaoguai?

Regarding the current system delay, she looked at the group chat and understood what was going on today, comparing the time numbers with the weather.

[Survival at Sea Day 14 06:30 Sunny Storm Dust] [Server Merge Competition Time Remaining 112 Hours 00 Minutes 45 Seconds]

The people at the base said that the contents of the backpack can only be taken out when a dust storm falls from the sky. At other times, all backpack-related functions are disabled. However, once you reach the expedition site, all system functions will return to normal.

Another weather feature that encourages survivors to go to the adventure area. The system really does everything it can.

After browsing the posts and having a certain grasp of today's weather conditions, she planned to answer all the questions in a while.

Because the chat and forum were not affected, so from early morning till now, too many unread messages have accumulated, which is actually not conducive to her obtaining important information.

It was impossible for Yu Miaomiao to spend a lot of time carefully reading the messages sent by everyone. After a quick glance, she found that except for a few people from foreign servers who often contacted her, they were all asking for information about the expedition.

Before, she felt strange because she clearly had not posted any message on the cross-server post, so why could people from foreign servers who had not added her as a friend find her and send her messages? Finally, Tingting told her that a very small number of people had an extra function of the forum, which was daily sharing. They could send posts from their own server to people from foreign servers. People from foreign servers could not leave messages and could only view and privately chat with the poster.

Some people use this function to sell information and make money. They didn’t expect that in the end times, even sharing can make money.

"One Sword Opens the Heavens: Comrade, I have no intention of prying into your private affairs. It's just that this server-wide competition has become too much of a fuss, and we've all heard this announcement. You got the final treasure chest but didn't gain all the progress toward the expedition. Did you run into any trouble? If you have any questions, please let me know. I hope I can help you and your server secure victory."

Why is he pretending to be a good person here... He is obviously trying to get information from her. In comparison, it would be more pleasant to talk to Dr. Ji, who is said to have lower EQ. At least we can both get what we need.

Yu Miaomiao is now becoming more and more disgusted with this person. Perhaps in the past this was just a normal greeting, but since she had a bad impression of him, she can't look at the words sent by the other party from a normal perspective. In addition, if she wants to contact her, she needs to find someone to share her posts once a day for private chat. How can she believe it if he has no purpose but to care about her?

But now is not the time to fall out. Yu Miaomiao planned to pretend not to see it and then look at the next message that made her laugh and cry.

"Shi Yancheng: Friend, since our two servers are going to merge, why don't we discuss how to do it?"

Strange, does this person know the rules of the merge? Or can he control the merge?

Besides, who would be friends with someone like him? Discussing with him is a complete waste of time. She still has a lot of things to do. Even if she wants to find out the other party's intentions, she has to wait until she gets certain information.

After Yu Miaomiao finished drinking the water in her hand, she opened the curtains. It was gray outside the window. If she was not mistaken, the scene of yellow sand all over the sky was the dust storm in today's weather.

While the system backpack was still working, she quickly took out the condensing fan and placed it inside the house. A cool breeze blew by, and she and Xiaoguai breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Just as Yu Miaomiao was about to reach out and touch Xiaoguai, it turned its head away.

"Meow, meow."

It’s hot, time to drink some water and eat.

Yu Miaomiao didn't have time to eat herself, so she helped Xiaoguai fill up the food and water bowls first, and also took out a batch of supplies to replenish all the thermal boxes in the house.

A dust storm can reduce the durability of her central air conditioner to 0. It seems that it is not suitable to use this machine today, and she has to use the old equipment again.

One may not be enough, but she doesn't have time to make a second one. She still remembers that she gave the drawing to Ziren in the early days. At that time, the two had agreed that Ziren needed to help her with one hour of work for free every day. Yu Miaomiao felt that this time should be counted.

"Meow Meow is not short of water: Do you know where those people who came to seek the inheritance are?"

Yu Miaomiao sent a message to Ziren straight away and began to plan the route to pick up the goods.

"Is Ziren here? They won't be going today. After all, only during a dust storm can the system backpack be used. Even if they find the goods, they can't put them back in the backpack. Do you want to go now? Safety first."

Yu Miaomiao: ...

When did the people who once wanted to harm her start caring about her safety?

"Meow Meow is not short of water: You owed me one hour of daily work, can you pay me back now? I need four condensing fans."

"Is Ziren here? Okay, I'll do it first, and then I'll trade with you when I'm done."

He really acted like a good guy and was willing to advance the money first. Yu Miaomiao really couldn't see through Ziren. Was it really because of Api's departure that he turned over a new leaf?

She spent too much time in the expedition site yesterday, which delayed the pickup time. Today's weather gave her an opportunity to make use of the time difference, and she had to set off now. As for the expedition site, she had to go later, and she had to invite Tingting to go with her again.

Tingting said she had made a new discovery, but she could only say it in person, after all, there was a "monitor" who was monitoring the chat information in real time.

Yu Miaomiao and Yingying exchanged shift times. After explaining his plan to Yingying in person, he carefully instructed Xiaoguai again.

Xiaoguai didn't seem to be so resistant to Miaomiao's leaving again. On this hot day, it preferred to rest on the water bag she prepared for it. For Xiaoguai, comfort came first.

After dismantling the facilities under the ship and putting on a new condensing fan, Yu Miaomiao secretly entered the underwater oxygen chamber and quietly left the base.